Ben Stiller Wants to Make ‘Severance' More Quickly—but First, He Needs to Get It Just Right

Ben Stiller Wants to Make ‘Severance’ More Quickly—but First, He Needs to Get It Just Right | Vanity Fair

Stiller goes deep on his busy year, from filming the “daunting” new Meet the Parents movie to planning Severance season 3—right after that huge Emmy noms haul.

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Ben Stiller’s Hollywood hustle has hit a new peak: after cameoing in Netflix’s Happy Gilmore 2, he’s about to dive into a fresh Meet the Parents sequel (Focker In-Law, co-starring Robert De Niro and Ariana Grande) and just locked the final cut on his personal doc Nothing Is Lost about parents Anna Meara and Jerry Stiller.

On the prestige side, he’s EP and director on Severance—which snagged 27 Emmy nods this year—and is itching to get season 3 on our screens faster. Stiller admits the long gaps drive him nuts (“sometimes I look at my own process and go, ‘Why can’t I shoot an episode in an hour and a half?’”), but insists that careful pacing is key to making it “just right.”